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Cowell wants Paula Abdul, Cheryl Cole for ‘X Factor’
Simon Cowell wants his former “American Idol” sparring partner Paula Abdul and British singer Cheryl Cole join him on the US version of his TV contest “The X Factor.”But the music impresario told entertainment industry website Deadline Hollywood that no deals had yet been signed to complete the line-up for the show, which is due to start airing on Fox television in September.
So far only the acid-tongued Briton himself and record executive
Thai-Cambodia fighting flares again as talks collapse
Thai and Cambodian troops clashed with heavy artillery for a sixth day on Wednesday near two disputed 12th-century Hindu temples, the Cambodian defence ministry said following a night of shelling that killed a Thai villager.Talks between Thai and Cambodian defence ministers to end Southeast Asia’s bloodiest border dispute in years were abruptly cancelled, dashing hopes of an imminent end to fighting that has killed at least
US charges four Pakistanis in Mumbai attack plot
Four Pakistanis have been charged as co-conspirators in the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans, US prosecutors said on Monday.The four were previously mentioned, but not named, in indictments charging American David Headley and Pakistani-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana with helping to identify targets in Mumbai.
Headley and Rana have also been charged in a plot
GE: GRC scheme here to stay
The relevance of the scheme was raised at a Chinese language forum televised at 8pm on Channel 8 on Saturday. It was a question that had been asked by a viewer via SMS.
"The fundamental reason is that GRCs ensure that in our Parliament, there will be a minimum number of minority MPs. That's very important. We are a multi-racial, multi-religious society. Without this system, the multi-racial feature of our Parliament will be under threat," said
N. Korea will never give up its nuclear ambitions: US general
"I do not see that he [N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il] will give up his nuclear capability," Gen. Walter Sharp told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday during hearings on Pentagon's budget for 2012 fiscal year.
"I think it is clear that Kim Jong-il believes he has to have it for regime survival," Sharp said adding that the U.S. military should maintain a strong presence on the Korean peninsula to stave off any
US to continue drone attacks despite ISI protest: report
Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha, at a meeting on Monday with the CIA director Leon Panetta, had expressed strong concern over the nature of drone attacks.
But the Obama administration has ruled out halting one of its highly successful anti-terror programmes.
"Panetta has an obligation to
Obama to set out budget plan on Wednesday
Washington is still regrouping from the political jousting that led to the near shutdown of the federal government at the weekend, but looming on the horizon are even bigger battles over the debt ceiling and the 2012 budget.
Opposition Republicans put pressure on Obama in the long-term budget debate by unveiling a spending blueprint last week that would cut government expenditures by $6 trillion over the
Pak-US joint intel operations on hold'
Uneasy US-Pakistani ties have become even tenser after a string of diplomatic disputes so far this year, including a massive drone strike in March and the case of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who shot dead two Pakistanis on January 27 in Lahore.
“Presently, joint operations are on hold,
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